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A changing Southern landscape
by Teresa Puente August 14, 2014 September 13, 2017
Rosaura Lima and her family live in Bowling Green, Ky. Lima, who is from Guatemala, says her children will have a better life because they were born in the United States. [Photo by Teresa Puente]
Teresa Puente drove across the U.S. this summer blogging about diverse people and places and capturing day-to-day life in America. Here are three dispatches from the South, where the Latino population is growing. Read about all the people she met at her Chicanísima blog at Chicago Now.
Rosaura Lima, 40, played with her children in the parking lot of a budget hotel in Morristown, Tenn., the boyhood home of Davy Crockett.
She lives in Bowling Green, Ky., with her husband, Roman Martinez, 43, who travelled 250 miles to Morristown for a construction job.
She was trying to keep the kids busy, as her husband was sick in a local hospital. He woke up with a giant welt on his arm that doctors told her may have come from a bug bite.
But he couldn't drive back home until the swelling stopped.
"The doctor said it was serious," she said.
Complicating matters, the couple does not have health insurance and they are undocumented.
Rosa is from Guatemala and her husband is from Mexico. Even though she has lived in the U.S. more than 10 years and her husband more than 20 years, there is no way for them to gain legal status without immigration reform. They don't have a family member or an employer who can sponsor them.
They are among the growing Latino population in southern states. In Bowling Green, the Hispanic population grew by 89 percent from 2000 to 2010. Today, there are 3,749 Hispanics in the town—6.5 percent of the population. Latinos make up around 3 percent of Kentucky's population.
In Tennessee, Latinos are around 5 percent of the population, double what it was in 2000.
Rosa's family tried to gain legal status and paid $8,000 to a lawyer last year.
"He cheated us," she said.
So they work under the table. She works at a fast food restaurant.
Rosa has hopes for her children, all born in this country.
"They are U.S. citizens so they will do better than us," she said.
Sussy Huskey, who moved to North Carolina from Costa Rica, runs a successful Latin dance studio and a café in the Blue Ridge Mountains. [Photo by Teresa Puente]
Sussy Huskey, 36, moved from Costa Rica to North Carolina 15 years ago.
She was recruited by Harrah's to work at a casino on an Indian reservation in Cherokee.
"The Cherokee people gave me a nice welcome because of my dark skin and hair," Huskey said. "At first they thought I was Cherokee too."
But many of the whites in the town where she lived, Whittier, had never met a person from Costa Rica before. They asked her questions like, "Do you wear clothes?" and "Do you have electricity?"
Hispanics are around 9 percent of the population in North Carolina, an increase of more than 111 percent since 2000.
Huskey shares her culture with the people in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Two years ago she decided she wanted to teach salsa and other Latin dance classes, including Zumba, in her community.
At her Studio Rumba, as many as 60 people take her classes each day. Some of them are the same people who held stereotypes about Latin America.
"People have opened up their heart to my culture," Huskey said. "It's amazing to see black, white and Indian people all dancing together in one room."
Huskey was married to a Cherokee man and she has a 9-year-old son, Ian.
"I want him to be proud of his cultures," she said of his dual heritage.
She divorced and now has a boyfriend of Chilean and Spanish heritage. They work together at the dance studio and the Fusion Café, which they opened two months ago near the reservation. She is doing so well that she left her job at the casino.
At the café, they serve everything from empanadas to chicken salad and Costa Rican coffee.
"We really are a fusion," she said.
Manuel Casados came to the U.S. as a guest worker from the Mexican state of Veracruz, where warring drug cartels have made life too violent, he says. [Photo by Teresa Puente]
Manuel Casados, 50, came to the U.S. 10 years ago with a guest worker visa to pick tobacco in North Carolina.
"It was really hard work, a hard life," Casados said. "There are no breaks and you are hunched over all day."
He left that job after one season and moved to the Atlanta area, where he started doing odd jobs and construction.
On weekends, he works at a flea market north of Athens, Ga. Around half the vendors there are Latino and they sell everything from dried chiles and other spices to caged chickens and CDs of mariachi music. It's called "Georgia's largest flea market" but it resembled a tianguis, or open air market in Mexico.
In Georgia, Hispanics are now 9 percent of the population, around 850,000, an increase of more than 96 percent since 2000.
Casados sells soccer shirts representing teams from Mexico, England, France and Italy, as well as shot glasses and Mexican trinkets.
"In one week I can make $80 in Mexico. But here I can make as much as $120 a day," he said. "It's not easy but enough to live on and send something back home."
His visa expired and he has stayed in the U.S. despite the threat of deportation.
His home state of Veracruz lives with warring drug cartels and the federal government has sent police to try and control the situation. Nine journalists also have been killed in that state over the last three years for reporting on the drug war.
"In Mexico, there is too much violence right now," he said. "I can't go back."
Making it work: Life on minimum wage
In "Employment and Labor"
Present at the announcement
In "Health"
Teresa Puente
is an associate professor of journalism at Columbia College Chicago More by Teresa Puente


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Mayor Ryan Joins Hundreds of Mayors to Call on Congress to Extend the Solar Investment Tax Credit
Bipartisan coalition of mayors see solar tax credit as critical for climate fight and economic growth
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 22, 2019 – A bipartisan group of 231 mayors from Tacoma, Wash to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. sent a letter to Congress today urging them to pass the Renewable Energy Extension Act (HR 3961/S. 2289), a five-year extension of the solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC).
"More than 200 mayors from 39 states are stepping up to defend the ITC," said Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). "Mayors are increasingly turning to solar energy to fight the effects of climate change and generate millions of dollars of private investment in their cities. We're thrilled to have their support as we fight to preserve one of the most successful clean energy policies in U.S. history."
For years, mayors on both sides of the aisle have provided frontline support for major hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, polar vortices and more. They've pushed for sound, long-term solutions to these weather events, including the transition to renewable energy. In fact, 28 of the cities represented have 100% renewable energy commitments.
"As the nation's largest municipal user of renewable energy, Houston understands that sustainability and resiliency go hand in hand," said Sylvester Turner, Mayor of the City of Houston. "Continuing to support the growth of renewable energy will help the U.S. lead the energy transition, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and build smarter, more resilient communities."
Mayors also understand the local, immediate impacts solar can have on families, businesses and the communities they serve. If extended, recent analysis from SEIA and Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables finds that the ITC could create an additional 113,000 jobs and $87 billion in economic investment by 2030.
"Adding Hanwha Q Cells to our manufacturing community represents much more than just jobs created," said Dennis Mock, Mayor of the City of Dalton, Ga. "Dalton relies heavily on the carpet industry and was hit hard during the last recession. Hanwha affords Dalton the diversity in industry that will help sustain our community and gives other companies confidence in our community and the opportunity to join the budding manufacturing hub in the Southeast."
The impact of the ITC spans the United States and transcends party affiliation. The bipartisan group of mayors represent large cities like Philadelphia and San Antonio, as well as mid-size and small cities like Wichita, Kan. and Bozeman, Mont. In addition, more than 60 mayors that signed onto the letter are working in districts that have a Republican member of Congress.
The ITC, which is scheduled to start stepping down at the end of 2019, has a proven track record of success. Since its initial passage, the ITC has created more than 200,000 American jobs, added $140 billion in private sector investment, and grown solar deployment by 10,000%.
SEIA is leading a major campaign to push members of Congress to send President Trump legislation that would extend clean energy tax credits, including the solar ITC for five years.
Learn more about SEIA's fight to defend the solar ITC: seia.org/defendtheitc.
About SEIA®:
Celebrating its 45th anniversary in 2019, the Solar Energy Industries Association® is the national trade association of the U.S. solar energy industry, which now employs more than 242,000 Americans. Through advocacy and education, SEIA® is building a strong solar industry to power America. SEIA works with its 1,000 member companies to build jobs and diversity, champion the use of cost-competitive solar in America, remove market barriers and educate the public on the benefits of solar energy. Visit SEIA online at www.seia.org.
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A man was banned from driving for three years after being caught drink driving for the second time.
He was stopped by police, and arrested, and gave a reading of 54mg of alcohol in 100ml of breath - over the 35mg limit.
Peterborough Magistrates Court heard he had only moved the car 300 yards, but also had a previous conviction for drink driving in 2012.
He pleaded guilty to driving above the alcohol limit last Monday (19 January).
Along with the ban, he was fined £350, and ordered to pay costs of £135 and a £35 surcharge.


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Q: Parsing a text file with multiple tags and writing it to another text file Need to read a text file which looks like an XML.The text file comprises of  multiple XML files  ,with a parent tags  .Need to parse the file and line by line and need to write the corresponding elements of the required  child tags even  repeated multiple times within  the parent tag , in a single line, to another text file .Need to write the elements to a next line after the parent tag.I know how to read a file and write the file ,But I am unable to get the logic to read it acording to the requirement .Please help me out .
    <parentnode xmlns="http://www.fpml.org/FpML-5/recordkeeping" fpmlVersion="5-5" xmlns:abcde="http://www.abcde.com/ext" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.abcde.com/ext /../xmls/XYZ/recordkeeping/abcde-ext.xsd">
<Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.google.com">1234566546</Child1>
<Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/UNique">AbcdeXYZ-23243423</Child1>
<country countryScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/country-identifier">1030253498</country>
<state stateScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/state-identifier">23423423423</state>
</parentnode>

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<Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.google.com">1234566546</Child1>
<Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/UNique">AbcdeXYZ-154555</Child1>
<country countryScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/country-identifier">1030253498</country>
<state stateScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/state-identifier">434343242</state>
</parentnode>

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<Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.google.com">1234566546</Child1>
<Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/UNique">AbcdeXYZ-4566545</Child1>
<country countryScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/country-identifier">1030253498</country>
<state stateScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/state-identifier">2323232323</state>
</parentnode>

A: First you have to do your file a valid xml:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rootnode>
    <parentnode xmlns="http://www.fpml.org/FpML-5/recordkeeping"
        fpmlVersion="5-5" xmlns:abcde="http://www.abcde.com/ext"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.abcde.com/ext /../xmls/XYZ/recordkeeping/abcde-ext.xsd">
        <Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.google.com">1234566546</Child1>
        <Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/UNique">AbcdeXYZ-23243423</Child1>
        <country
            countryScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/country-identifier">1030253498</country>
        <state stateScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/state-identifier">23423423423</state>
    </parentnode>

    <parentnode xmlns="http://www.fpml.org/FpML-5/recordkeeping"
        fpmlVersion="5-5" xmlns:abcde="http://www.abcde.com/ext"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.abcde.com/ext /../xmls/XYZ/recordkeeping/abcde-ext.xsd">
        <Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.google.com">1234566546</Child1>
        <Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/UNique">AbcdeXYZ-154555</Child1>
        <country
            countryScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/country-identifier">1030253498</country>
        <state stateScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/state-identifier">434343242</state>
    </parentnode>

    <parentnode xmlns="http://www.fpml.org/FpML-5/recordkeeping"
        fpmlVersion="5-5" xmlns:abcde="http://www.abcde.com/ext"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.abcde.com/ext /../xmls/XYZ/recordkeeping/abcde-ext.xsd">
        <Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.google.com">1234566546</Child1>
        <Child1 Child1Scheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/UNique">AbcdeXYZ-4566545</Child1>
        <country
            countryScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/country-identifier">1030253498</country>
        <state stateScheme="http://www.fpml.org/coding-scheme/external/state-identifier">2323232323</state>
    </parentnode>
</rootnode>

And then you can start reading your file, just check it out.
import java.io.File;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class ReadXMLFile {

    public static void main(String argv[]) {

        try {
            File fXmlFile = new File("file.xml");
            DocumentBuilderFactory dbFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
            DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dbFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
            Document doc = dBuilder.parse(fXmlFile);

            doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();

            System.out.println("Root element :" + doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());

            NodeList nList = doc.getElementsByTagName("parentnode");

            for (int temp = 0; temp < nList.getLength(); temp++) {

                Node nNode = nList.item(temp);

                System.out.println("Current Element :" + nNode.getNodeName());

                if (nNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
                    Element eElement = (Element) nNode;
                    System.out.println("Staff id : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("Child1").item(0).getTextContent());
                    System.out.println("First Name : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("Child1").item(0).getTextContent());
                    System.out.println("Last Name : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("country").item(0).getTextContent());
                    System.out.println("Nick Name : " + eElement.getElementsByTagName("state").item(0).getTextContent());
                }
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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The weekend of April 14 and 15 in Granville will be a weekend to celebrate the cheerful harbinger of spring, the Daffodil flower. Saturday the 14th is Garden Day at Robbins Hunter Museum, coinciding with the annual Daffodil Show at Bryn Du Mansion that weekend and the day's schedule is full.
Notable to RHM's Garden Day is the American Daffodil Society's (ADS) recognition and dedication of the Jill Harms Griesse Historic Garden at 12 noon. Garden Day coincides with the annual Granville Garden Club's Daffodil Show and Sale at Bryn Du Mansion and activities at both venues have been planned collaboratively, says Christina Gray, chair and RHM board member.
The road to garnering this distinguished honor began several years ago when the museum's garden committee laid the groundwork for a well-planned and designed planting of named varieties of the spring flower. The dedication ceremony is free and open to the public.
The honor is significant in the botanical world, placing the Jill Harms Griesse Historic Garden on a list of only 25 gardens in 15 states to have met the staunch criteria of being recognized as an approved Daffodil garden. The Griesse Historic Garden joins such highly recognized gardens as Winterthur, in Delaware; Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania; Chicago Botanical Gardens; and Eudora Welty House Garden in Jackson, Mississippi.
The garden's namesake, Jill Griesse, who passed away in 2014, had a passion for Daffodils that led her to the presidency of the ADS and a lifetime cultivator of the species, which can feature thousands of varieties. Her own garden, located on the land surrounding her home on North Street, was filled with many of those, some rare, others her own cultivars. On her passing, the museum board, with the encouragement and support of Paul Griesse, Jill's husband, launched the project. He donated many bulbs from his late wife's gardens to get the ball rolling.
The garden now features nearly 400 named varieties.
Saturday kicks off with a fun event open to the public. Noted botanist Brent Heath of Brent and Becky's Bulbs in Gloucester County, Virginia, will lead a bulb planting workshop beginning at 10 a.m. Summer flowering bulbs and pots are included in the $50 fee. Registration is necessary and can be accomplished through the website or by calling the museum at 740.587.0430.
One of his greatest joys is sharing his love of all things natural and inspiring people to look at the world around them in different, eye-opening ways. Brent Heath of Brent and Becky's Bulbs in Virginia will be in Granville during Garden Day and the Daffodil Show for a workshop and talk.
Brent, a long-time friend of the Granville Garden Club and the hybridizer of many of the flowers in the Museum's collection, is a naturalist, an author, a photographer, a speaker, a daffodil hybridizer and a gardener. Because of achievements in all of these areas of expertise, he has won many gold medal awards from various organizations in the horticultural industry.
One of Brent's greatest joys is sharing his love of all things natural in the world and inspiring people of all ages and experiences to look at the world around them in a different, eye-opening way. He has helped them understand how to take care of the earth for the next crop and/or for future generations. He has given lectures and shared knowledge with gardeners in every state except North Dakota and Hawaii. His plans for the future are to continue to play in his garden and care for the earth while encouraging others to do the same.
Brent will also speak that evening, 7–8:30 p.m., at RHM in a talk titled "Undaunted Daffodils." Admission is free for RMH and Granville Garden Club members, $15 non-members. Again please register with the museum.
"As a member of the Granville Garden Club and as a trustee of the museum, bringing the Jill Griesse Historic Garden and its wonderful collection of Daffodils to the national stage is tremendously fulfilling," she said.
All in all, the day will become an enjoyable and easy way to come to the museum, Christina said.


The KTM Kamunting Railway Station (Stesen Keretapi Kamunting) can be found in the state of Perak, Malaysia, on the main north-south railway line and is served by regular commuter trains (KTMB Komuter).
As of 1/2/2017, the high-speed Electric Train Services (ETS) is no longer stopping here.
Kamunting Station used to be the last stop on the new Butterworth to Kamunting Komuter line, but this service has now been extended and now these commuter trains travel on a couple of stops further south to Taiping and Padang Rengas, but now all but a few trains terminates in Bukit Mertajam rather than Butterworth..
There are now many services a day on the Padang Rengas to Bukit Mertajam route.
Bagan Serai, Parit Buntar, Nibong Tebal, Simpang Ampat and Bukit Mertajam (with a few trains a day continuing on to Bukit Tengah and Butterworth) - to the north.
Taiping and Padang Rengas to the south.
With most of these services now terminating in Bukit Mertajam, if you want to travel from Kamunting to Butterworth by train cheaply, you will now have to change at Bukit Mertajam, where you can transfer on to one of the other Komuter Trains routes that travel between Padang Besar on the Thailand border and Butterworth, Penang.
If you want to travel further north to places like Alor Setar and Arau (for the ferries to Langkawi island), Sungai Petani or up to the Thailand border, you can either choose to take an ETS train from Parit Buntar, or a much cheaper option is to take one Komuter Train to Bukit Mertajam and change there for another Komuter which goes all the way to the Thai border.
Now the ETS services on the Kuala Lumpur to Padang Besar / Butterworth routes are no longer stopping at Kamunting, you will have to take a KTM Komuter Train to the nearest main station to catch one of these fast trains.
Take a Komuter to Taiping where both Gold and Platinum ETS Services stop.
You can travel by ETS as far south as Gemas, where you will currently have to change trains to take one of the Shuttle services further south to Johor Bahru (JB Sentral Station).
From Johor Bahru you can then change trains to take the short five minute journey over the causeway to Singapore Woodlands Station.
All ETS Trains heading south stop at popular destinations such as Kuala Kangsar, Ipoh, Batu Gajah, Kampar, Tapah Road, Tanjung Malim and Kuala Lumpur KL Sentral.
A few services then continue from KL Sentral on to Seremban, Tampin and Gemas.
To the north (Arau, Alor Setar, Padang Besar etc) you can choose to go by ETS or Komuter Train.
ETS tickets in Malaysia can often be sold out well in advance, so make an advance booking if you want to use the ETS services.
Visiting any KTM ticket counter at any main station.
No advance purchased is available for Komuter services.
You just go to the station and buy a ticket for the next train.


The birth of Travel-Tot followed a trip I took with my husband and two small children. We have always loved to travel and continued to vacation after we started having children. Unfortunately, the more mobile and curious my children became, the more stressful our stays became. Although our hotel rooms were beautifully appointed and convenient for my husband and me, they did not address basic safety concerns for our two active children.
The second element that led to our Travel-Tot concept was the realization that although I was an expert child proofer at home, all that safety and peace of mind disappeared whenever we traveled. I am a member of the International Association for Child Safety (IAFCS) and actively assist other families in creating a safe environment for small children. After a stay at a particularly non-child-safe hotel, I decided that it was necessary to travel with our own childproofing materials. It started as a gallon sized re-sealable bag. The elements of the kit evolved from a combination of frequent travel and childproofing education through the International Association for Child Safety. The big innovation is using the 3M temporary adhesives, so that these pieces can be placed on furniture and be removed without any damage. Many adhesives claim to be temporary, but they are far from being temporary and certainly are not non-damaging. After a few trips, I had honed and perfected the portable, temporary childproofing kit. When we realized there was nothing like it already being sold, my husband connected the dots and realized that we had a product that other families might really benefit from using.
The Travel-Tot childproof kit is geared for anyone traveling with small children or has small children visiting. When I was developing the kit, I would throw it in my suitcase whenever we traveled. I did not always use every single item, but I was traveling with a little more peace of mind. Of course, I was not any less vigilant, but I was more relaxed. And I do not know anyone who travels with their children who is not looking for a little less stress!
Travel-Tot provides families with an easy, temporary, non-damaging way to childproof hotel rooms, motel rooms, even grandma's house!
Our product is designed to be easily portable and convenient. All items requiring application are fastened with non-damaging adhesive strips provided in the kit.
Components require no tools and can be installed in about 5 minutes; they go on strong, and come off clean! Just follow the enclosed directions.
Items included in the kit are: finger pinch guard, electrical outlet plug covers, foam corner guards, door knob cover, cord wind-up, sliding door lock, cabinet lock, multi-purpose straps, water thermometer, bandages, forehead thermometer, and "shhh, Travel-Tot sleeping" door hanger.
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Posts Tagged 'Water Resources-Clean Water'
Acid Rain Work Not Finished
Great strides have been made in recent decades to protect the Adirondack Park's environment from acid rain, but more work still needs to be done. That's according to scientists, environmentalists and natural resource managers who attended a conference about acid rain in the Adirondacks Thursday at the Hilton Hotel in Saratoga Springs.
The event was organized by the Adirondack Council and the Environmental Defense Fund. » Continue Reading.
Lake George's Native Mussels Get Attention
by Anthony F. Hall
Zebra Mussels and Asian clams receive so much attention that little is left for Lake George's native mussels, which are as beneficial to the lake as the invasives are destructive.
Increasing awareness of the natives' value and the potential threats to their survival is a mission of Dr. Dan Marelli, a Florida biologist whose expertise has made him a valued collaborator of the Darrin Fresh Water Institute whenever mollusks enter the picture.
In August 2010, for example, the first Asian clams discovered in the lake were immediately sent to him. He confirmed their identity, and the multi-million dollar effort to eradicate the invasive, or at least to contain its spread, began. When Zebra mussels were discovered in 1999, Marelli was among those who participated in a successful hand-harvesting eradication effort. » Continue Reading.
Completed 2014 Lake George Conservation Projects
The Lake George Land Conservancy (LGLC) has issued a report to the press outlining its work in 2014 and looking forward to its plans for 2015. In tallying their efforts, LGLC has found that over the last nine months they have protected 462 acres of Lake George watershed lands through partnerships, purchases, donations and conservation easements and are currently working on plans to protect over 750 acres in the near future.
Land conservation projects have been completed in five towns around Lake George, including Bolton, Hague, Putnam, Fort Ann, and the Town of Lake George. The projects protect forests, wetlands, rocky slopes and ridges, and streams, as well as wildlife habitat.
LGLC also achieved land trust accreditation in August from the Land Trust Accreditation Commission, an independent program of the Land Trust Alliance. The organization is also preparing for a change in leadership. Executive Director Nancy Williams is expected to retire this fall, and LGLC's Board of Directors hope to have a new executive director in place by January of 2015. » Continue Reading.
Report: Eradicating Spiny Water Flea Not Possible
In a statement issued to the press, the Lake Champlain Basin Aquatic Invasive Species Rapid Response Task Force has said that "eradication of spiny water flea in Lake Champlain is not technically feasible" and urged instead that "spread prevention measures should be implemented as soon as possible" to keep the invasive from spreading to nearby water bodies.
Sampling has confirmed its presence at multiple lake stations in Champlain's Main Lake region. In 2012, spiny water flea was discovered in both the Champlain Canal and Lake George. Spiny water fleas have been detected in the southern Adirondacks in Great Sacandaga Lake (2008), Peck Lake (2009), and Stewarts Bridge Reservoir and Sacandaga Lake (2010). This summer they were detected in Lakes Piseco and Pleasant (2014).
The Task Force's Spread Prevention Recommendations were also issued, as follows: » Continue Reading.
Adirondack Road Salt Alternatives Sought
A conference at Paul Smith's College this week led to the formation of a working group that will look at alternatives to applying road-salt on local roads.
The all-volunteer group, which is still being finalized, will study the costs of alternative de-icers and their impact on roads, bridges, and water quality. It will also examine roads in the Adirondacks to see where sunlight could be used to assist with snow and ice removal. It will identify funding sources for further studies of groundwater contamination, salt toxicity, public education, and training of state and municipal employees.
The group is expected to include members of local and state highway departments, environmental groups, local elected officials, and scientists. » Continue Reading.
New Studies Put Focus On Adirondack Loons
Biodiversity Research Institute's (BRI's) Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation and the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS's) Adirondack Program have announced that three new articles summarizing research on Adirondack loons have been published in a special issue of the journal Waterbirds that is dedicated to loon research and conservation in North America. Research was conducted on the Common Loon (Gavia immer), which breeds on Adirondack lakes, by BRI and WCS in collaboration with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, SUNY ESF's Adirondack Ecological Center, Paul Smiths Watershed Stewardship Program, and other partners.
"We are pleased to have our loon research in the Adirondack Park included in this unique publication," Dr. Nina Schoch, Coordinator of BRI's Adirondack Center for Loon Conservation, said in a statement to the press. "The special issue includes fifteen scientific papers highlighting loon behavior, life history and population ecology, movements and migration, habitat and landscape requirements, and the risk contaminants pose to loon populations. The publication will be a valuable resource to help guide the conservation of loon populations throughout North America." » Continue Reading.
Bolton Acquires Wild Forest Lands To Protect Water Supply
The Town of Bolton has agreed to purchase two forested lots wrapped in a conservation easement near Edgecomb Pond, adding another layer of protection to the source of its drinking water.
"This is a $200,000 piece of property that we're getting for a fraction of that price. Nothing is more important than our water supply, and we're protecting it through a wonderful partnership between the town, the Lake George Land Conservancy and a local resident," said Bolton Supervisor Ron Conover.
The Lake George Land Conservancy's easement on the property, which protects it from any development, reduced the price to the town by more than $100,000, said Nancy Williams, the Conservancy's executive director. » Continue Reading.
Commentary: Governor Should Sign Aquatic Invasives Bill
by Peter Bauer
Legislation passed in June that bans the transport of aquatic invasive species (AIS) across New York has been sent to Governor Andrew Cuomo to sign into law. Similar laws are on the books in a number of other states. This legislation will significantly improve New York's focus and ability to control AIS.
Governor Cuomo has until September 6th to sign this legislation. He should sign it. » Continue Reading.
Adirondacks May Become A Conduit For Tar-Sands Oil
by Phil Brown
Four environmental organizations are sponsoring a forum in Plattsburgh this week on the dangers of transporting Bakken crude oil on trains through the Champlain Valley, but trains may someday be moving another hazardous fuel through the region: oil from the Canadian tar sands.
Global Companies receives Bakken crude at the Port of Albany, much of which is transported on a rail line that runs along the shore of Lake Champlain. Bakken crude is a volatile fuel that caused massive explosions when a train derailed in Quebec last year, killing forty-seven people.
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Organizations Seek Alternatives to Road Salt
Salt contamination of our streams, watersheds and aquifers from aggressive use of salt in winter road maintenance has become a major threat to the ecology of the Adirondacks, local advocates warn.
Finding ways to minimize or avoid that threat while keeping roads safe is the goal of the third annual Adirondack Winter Road Maintenance Conference, which will explore alternatives to current road salting and clearing policies at Paul Smith's College on September 16, from 9 am to 4:30 pm. » Continue Reading.
Gulf Brook: A Keene Pollution Case From 1900
by Enid Mastrianni
In 1896, New York City resident Prestonia Mann purchased an Adirondack estate in Keene and set about to create a summer community based on the 1840s Massachusetts Transcendentalist utopian experiment, Brook Farm. She sent an invitation to her circle of acquaintances – mostly progressive social reformers and educators – describing the place she named Summer Brook in homage to the earlier colony:
It includes a large common hall, a cottage, and about twenty acres of land traversed by a fine trout brook. The region—at the northern end of Keene Valley—is in the noblest part of the great wilderness. The land lies 2,000 feet above the sea, upon a small plateau jutting out from among the foot-hills of Mount Hurricane, in the midst of wild and rugged scenery, commanding a splendid mountain range from Whiteface on the north to Tahawus on the south.
Unfortunately, a hotel upstream, The Willey House, was dumping all of their raw sewage into the same "fine trout brook", known as Gulf Brook. » Continue Reading.
Lake George Village To Finally Tackle Wastewater Problem
Since the 1970s, scientists and officials have been aware that the Lake George Waste Water Treatment plant has been discharging unacceptably high levels of nitrates through ground water, into West Brook and ultimately, into Lake George.
"Nitrates are probably the single, biggest influence on the water quality in the West Brook watershed, and the treatment plant is the single largest source of nitrates," says Lake George Waterkeeper Chris Navitsky.
According to Navitsky, excessive levels of nitrate stimulate the growth of weeds and algae and can endanger fish life, the quality of drinking water, recreation and even human health. "Fortunately, we haven't reached that level yet," he said, adding that after Lake George Village completes the second phase of improvements to its waste water treatment plant, which it has committed itself to undertaking after being cited by the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, we won't. » Continue Reading.
Invasive Spiny Water Flea Headed To Lake Champlain
Spiny water flea, an invasive species that is believed will be impossible to eradicate once established, is poised to enter Lake Champlain.
The Lake Champlain Research Institute (LCRI) has confirmed massive numbers of spiny water fleas in the Glens Falls Feeder Canal, at the junction basin where the feeder canal branches off the Hudson River at Glens Falls. The feeder canal flows toward the Champlain Canal which serves as a route for boats into Lake Champlain.
Dr. Tim Mihuc, Director of the LCRI, reports that recent sampling indicates that the numbers of spiny water flea this year have increased dramatically. "They are on their way into the lake, if not already there," Dr. Mihuc said. Lake Champlain is considered a source for the spread of invasive species to other water-bodies in the Adirondacks, including nearby Lake George. » Continue Reading.
NYS Aquatic Invasive Species Control Legislation Passed
Legislation passed at the bitter end of the 2014 NYS Legislative Session included a historic bill that will help transition New York to a greater focus on the prevention and interdiction of aquatic invasive species (AIS). This bill was carried by Assembly member Barbara Lifton from Ithaca and Senator Thomas O'Mara from Chemung County. Both have communities engaged in trying to stop the spread of hydrilla (hydrilla verticillata) on Cayuga Lake and elsewhere. Adirondack legislators all supported this bill and Dan Stec was one of the Assembly co-sponsors.
This bill is important for the Adirondacks because we still have many lakes and ponds that are not yet infested with AIS. While the list of infested waters grows and the number of AIS increases, we now have an important new tool to try and stop the spread. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) finalized rules this month that prohibits the launching of boats with any visible plant or animal matter or standing water at DEC boat launches and fishing access sites. This is important but limited. This new legislation will allow the DEC to develop similar regulations for all public, private and commercial boat launches across the state. » Continue Reading.
New Darrin Fresh Water Institute Lab Planned
Construction of a new laboratory at RPI's Darrin Fresh Water Institute will begin this summer and will be completed before autumn, said RPI president Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson.
According to Jackson, RPI will finance the construction of the new lab as part of its contribution to the Jefferson Project, the program created by IBM, The Fund for Lake George and RPI to bring high technology to the study and preservation of Lake George's water quality. » Continue Reading.
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Julie Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Directed by Julie Taymor; written by William Shakespeare
Julie Taymor's adaptation of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream was screened in a number of movie theaters in North America this week for one night only (on or about the summer solstice). The film was shot during a run of Taymor's version of the play at the Theatre for a New Audience in Brooklyn in 2013-14.
Scholars theorize that Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, perhaps for an aristocratic wedding, in the mid-1590s. The comic-magical play, one of the few whose basic outline the dramatist did not derive from another source, has several interconnected plot strands.
Duke Theseus of Athens and Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons, are making preparations for their wedding day; four young lovers—Hermia, Helena, Lysander and Demetrius—attempt to sort out their relationships, in the face of a host of external and internal pressures; Oberon and Titania, the king and queen of Fairyland, are in the midst of a quarrel, with all sorts of implications for the natural world around them; a group of Athenian "mechanicals" (workmen) are rehearsing a play, the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe [a story that resembles Romeo and Juliet], to be performed at the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta.
Much of the play takes place in the moonlit woods presided over by Oberon and Titania. Angered at his queen, Oberon has his "sprite," Robin "Puck" Goodfellow, locate a flower whose juice, smeared on the eyes, will make any creature fall in love with the next person—or animal—he or she sees. Puck changes the head of one of the workmen, Bottom the weaver, into a donkey's, and Titania, on seeing him, falls madly in love.
Meanwhile, the four lovers are stumbling around the forest. At first, both Lysander and Demetrius are in love with Hermia, much to the unhappiness of Helena, who adores Demetrius. After Puck drops some of his potion in the wrong eyes, Lysander and Demetrius direct their affections and attentions toward Helena, who becomes convinced that the other three have conspired to play a cruel prank on her.
Bottom passes the time with Titania and her attendant fairies, until Oberon and Puck intervene and restore him more or less to his previous condition. In the end, Oberon and Titania are reconciled, the three other couples find their way to the altar, and Bottom and his fellow workmen stage their play successfully at the wedding reception.
Taymor (born 1952) is best known for spectacular theater stagings, especially of The Lion King (1997) and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (2010). She has directed a number of films, including Titus (1999, based on Shakespeare's bloody Titus Andronicus), Frida (2002), Across the Universe (2007) and The Tempest (2010). While visually intriguing, none of these films was an artistic success. Frida, about the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, was significantly misconceived.
Taymor's work in general has seemed a triumph of style over substance. Fortunately, with A Midsummer Night's Dream she has taken on a work that brings her considerable skill to the fore. Imaginatively staged and exuberantly performed, Taymor's effort is largely a delight. If it does not explore the play or its themes deeply, and it does not, it certainly allows an audience to experience something of the work's relentless beauty and poetry.
The play takes place on a stage deeply thrust into the audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn. A central image is a giant silk bed-sheet that makes itself into a balloon, a sky, a sort of hammock, a projection screen and a good deal more. Taymor makes great use of lighting, harnesses, trapdoors and a variety of equipment, especially in the Titania-Oberon-Puck scenes.
Kathryn Hunter as an androgynous Puck, who twists herself into any number of poses, is thoroughly engaging, as are David Harewood as Oberon and Tina Benko as Titania. A crowd of small children charmingly represent the fairies. To her credit, Taymor has made the play accessible to contemporary audiences, without sacrificing the original play.
There is something genuinely breathtaking, almost "unbearable" (as I noted in a review of Michael Hoffman's 1999 film version of the play), about the sweetness of the language in A Midsummer Night's Dream. This is Oberon to Puck:
Thou rememb'rest
Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
That the rude sea grew civil at her song
And certain stars shot madly from their spheres
To hear the sea maid's music?
And further:
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and eglantine.
And that sweetness is powerfully brought out here, by Taymor, Harewood, Benko and Hunter in particular.
As we noted in 1999, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps "the gentlest of Shakespeare's works." That review went on:
"Puck plays his pranks, and Oberon takes his relatively harmless revenge on Titania, but this is not a nightmare, it is a dream born of a warm summer night. Oberon takes pity on Helena, 'a sweet Athenian lady ... in love with a disdainful youth.' Puck says, although mistakenly, of Hermia lying near Lysander: 'Pretty soul, she durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.' Later Oberon instructs Puck to prevent a fight between jealous Demetrius and Lysander, and declares his intention to release Titania from her spell, 'and all things shall be peace.' Or, as Puck puts it, even more suggestively, 'Jack shall have Jill, / Naught shall go ill.'"
One of the remarkable themes of the play, bound up of course with great changes in social relations in Shakespeare's time, is the extraordinary and novel malleability of human personality and emotions. Granted that Oberon and Puck intervene supernaturally from time to time, but the four young people, as well as Titania herself, demonstrate that love, for example, is hardly a sentiment fixed for eternity.
Demetrius observes that his love for Hermia—which he was only cured of the night before!—"seems to me now / As the remembrance of an idle gaud / Which in my childhood I did dote upon."
Titania declares her undying love for Bottom at the beginning of one scene ("O, how I love thee! how I dote on thee!") and, only a few scant moments later, once having woken from her "visions," exclaims, "How came these things to pass? / O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!"
As we noted in 1999, A Midsummer Night's Dream suggests "a world of infinite possibility. After all, this is the only one of Shakespeare's plays in which a man on the Bottom sleeps with (or by) a Queen, at her instigation no less. In the forest in the middle of the night in a dream all things pass into one another and are transformed, love and hate, man and animal, spirit and matter."
The rapid, dramatic changes of Taymor's set and design have the advantage of suggesting something of this transmutability.
The weakest point here is Max Casella's Bottom, or rather, not the actor, but Taymor's direction. Casella is far too broad, with his clichéd New York-New Jersey accent, and works far too hard for broad and rather cheap laughs.
Shakespeare was not writing his play principally for "mechanicals," for laborers, although they formed a section of his audience. And certainly there is a degree to which the playwright laughs along with Duke Theseus and the rest of the Athenian elite at the artistic-theatrical pretensions of the weaver (Nick Bottom), carpenter (Peter Quince), bellows-mender (Francis Flute), tinker (Tom Snout), joiner (simply "Snug") and tailor (Robin Starveling).
As occasionally foolish as the "mechanical" actors are, however, their essential geniality, solidarity and sincerity come through. Is there a genuinely warmer moment in Shakespeare than that in which Bottom makes his reappearance, after losing his asses' head, among his fellow artisans?
Where are these lads? where are these hearts?
QUINCE [and the others]
Bottom! O most courageous day! O most happy hour!
Masters, I am to discourse wonders: but ask me not what; for if I tell you, I am no true Athenian. I will tell you every thing, right as it fell out.
Let us hear, sweet Bottom.
Essential to the success of the "mechanical" scenes is the workers' spirit of togetherness. Despite their various idiosyncrasies, they stick up for and stand by one another. In Taymor's version, Brendan Averett as Snug, Joe Grifasi as Quince, William Youmans as Starveling, Jacob Ming-Trent as Snout and Zachary Infante as Flute all do well, even memorably. Infante's "death scene" as Thisbe is quite remarkable. On the other hand, portraying Bottom as something of a scene-stealer and "ham," and not simply an enthusiast, is a mistake and detracts from the work.
Whatever intentions he had in his head to begin with, Shakespeare was Shakespeare, and once he began to work through a character's situation, he generally got to the heart of things. We recently noted the comment by Orson Welles that Shakespeare's Falstaff (who appears in a number of the history plays) was "the most completely good man, in all drama." Then Bottom is certainly one of the kindest and most endearing.
He is the favorite of the artisans; during the time he spends away from them in Titania's company, they are at a loss. He has, according to Flute, "the best wit of any handicraftman in Athens," and he is "the best person, too," adds Quince. "O sweet bully Bottom," cries Flute, sadly.
We noted in 1999: "The weaver is unfailingly thoughtful and considerate, and apparently unfazed by any of the astonishing things that befall him. When Titania unexpectedly proclaims that she loves him, he replies, 'Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that.' Nonetheless, it is not unthinkable, for 'to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.'
"Offered the part of a lover in the workmen's theatrical, Bottom expresses the desire to play a 'tyrant' instead. No one is less fit for such a part. So concerned is he about the ladies in the audience becoming frightened, because a lion appears in the piece, he explains that were he to play the part, 'I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will roar you an 'twere any nightingale.'
"Worried as well about the impact on the female spectators of his character killing himself, Bottom suggests adding a prologue in which he will explain that 'we will do no harm with our swords, and that Pyramus [his character] is not killed indeed; and for the more better assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am not Pyramus, but Bottom the weaver. That will put them out of fear.' I think Harold Bloom is entitled to assert in his Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human that Bottom is 'a sublime clown ... a great visionary ... and a very good man, as benign as any in Shakespeare.'"
In any event, despite the missteps in this regard, Taymor's A Midsummer Night's Dream is enjoyable and absorbing. It will open more widely later in the year.
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An Indian Springs man pleaded guilty Wednesday to violating the Endangered Species Act for his role in a 2016 break-in at a water-filled cavern in Nevada that is home to one of the world's rarest species of fish.
According to federal prosecutors, Trenton Sargent, 28, rammed his ATV into the gate at Devils Hole and entered the protected National Park Service site 90 miles west of Las Vegas. Once inside, Sargent and two other men shot up signs, locks and parts of the surveillance system before Sargent went into the water, smashing in the process the eggs and larvae of the critically endangered Devils Hole pupfish at the peak of its spawning season.
The park service found beer cans and vomit on the site, as well as a pair of boxer shorts in the water at Devils Hole.
Sargent also pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to one count of destruction of federal property and one count of illegal possession of a firearm by a felon.
He faces up to a year in prison and a $50,000 fine for violating the Endangered Species Act, a misdemeanor. The felony property damage and firearm possession charges each carry maximum penalties of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Sargent is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 25.
Edgar Reyes, 37, of North Las Vegas and Steven Schwinkendorf, 31, of Pahrump previously pleaded guilty to destruction of government property and violation of the Endangered Species Act for their roles in the April 30, 2016, break-in. Each was sentenced to one year of probation.
Despite their efforts to disable the security system, the three men were caught on camera and identified by investigators from the park service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Nye County Sheriff's Office.
During a population survey earlier this year, experts counted just 87 Devils Hole pupfish, the lowest spring total in three years.
Since the inch-long, neon-blue fish came under federal protection in 1967, its population peaked at 544 in 1990 and bottomed out at 32 in the spring of 2013.


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ECER – short for European-Chinese Centre for Education and Research in Regional Development Planning – is an international network based in Trier, Germany. It is sponsored by the city of Trier and Beijing Normal University, in addition to receiving support from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Chinese Ministry of Education (MoE). ECER devotes itself to coordinating and managing activities at leading universities in the fields of sustainable urban, regional, and transportation planning.
Today ECER is the largest German-Chinese network in the fields of sustainable urban, regional, and transportation planning. In this network you will find the top universities.
The main requirement for entering a doctoral program (for a Ph.D. or similar degree) is a master's degree.
We arrange goal-oriented academic training and advanced academic training of the best master's and doctoral students from Chinese and German universities. The overriding goal is to help overcome the still-worsening regional disparities in China.


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Film Reviews: Secret Blend, Or Accidental Breath
September 8, 2016 Bruce Dennill
In Secret / Directed by Charlie Stratton / 16SV 7.5
Breathe In / Directed by Drake Doremus / 13L 6
If I Were You / Directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin / 16LD 6
Blended / Directed by Frank Coraci / 10L 2
Accidental Love / Directed by Stephen Greene / PGL 8
Ah, romance. What would the movie industry be without it? Even in epics built around giant lizards or dramas about bending it like Beckham, there's a couple whose love for each other is either blossoming or developing. Set a film in any context, in any era, and you'll have romance in some guise as a pillar of the storyline (there's even a love affair in the Narcissus biopic, though a smaller cast is needed in that case).
In In Secret, love – and the lack of it – opens up a nasty can of worms. The film is a period drama, set in Paris in the 1860s, before the travel agents had worked their magic on the city's branding. In a musty little shop, a gorgeous young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) under the watchful eye of her domineering mother-in-law (Jessica Lange, so you know it's going to get edgy), who unfailingly supports her cruel, colourless son Camille (Tom Felton, no more pleasant here than he is when bullying that nice Harry boy at Hogwarts). Somehow, Camille has managed to make at least one friend in his life and his buddy Laurent (newly minted Star Wars flyboy Oscar Isaac, but with added sideburns) is both dreamy to look at, you know, not a massive plonker. Does that make the inevitable affair between the prettiest people on the screen okay? No. Does it make it understandable? Perhaps. Does it throw viewers off the scent in terms of the expected outcome of the situation? Absolutely – but without introducing ridiculous plot twists. This is intelligent filmmaking and writing and director Charlie Stratton does well to keep the tone constant, even as events take disturbing turns.
Breathe In involves another illicit hook-up, again based on recognisably realistic flaws in its protagonists. The issues here are chronic insecurity (Guy Pearce's middle-aged dad) and youthful naivete (Felicity Jones' English exchange student, come to stay with his New York State family. Not an awful lot happens – particularly outside of what regular film viewers will expect given the set-up – but there is a beguiling impetus built up as one character gains confidence and the other loses it, both without apparently taking into account the effect their actions will have. There's more than a hint of American Beauty to the story, though this one is not quite as elegant or haunting. There is a musical element to proceedings – both of the characters at the centre of the piece are excellent performers – that increases appeal, though the examination of ennui, as necessary as it is, tempers any cheer that facet of the film generates.
The premise for If I Were You is a little trickier. A woman who knows her husband is cheating on her happens to meet the man's mistress – though she doesn't know that is the case. The pair hit it off and make a pact to try and fix the problems in each other's lives. To this irony is added a touch of humour in that both women land up in a very, very poor production of King Lear, and what might have been a warmed feminist treatise becomes an idiosyncratic comedy-drama that, despite its cast – the always outstanding Marcia Gay Harden is the slighted wife, and Aiden Quinn makes a rare foray back into the limelight – never entirely convinces. Still, depending on your mood while you're watching, the laughs won't be enough to overshadow the despondency at the heart of the situation: lies, deception and heartbreak aren't consistently good for gags.
What's even worse where gags are concerned are pretty much all of Adam Sandler's recent films, and Blended is particularly stinky. If you're feeling charitable, you may concede that trying to draw attention to the complexities faced by so-called blended families is a commendable exercise. But all the goodwill in the world will dissolve under the burden of the bad taste, poor writing and terrible decision-making assembled here. Unfunny jokes, horrible acting and the setting back of whatever progress had been made in American ignorance regarding Africa – two thirds of the film takes place in and around Sun City, an already vulgar fairytale, but Sandler and company go above and beyond in senseless idiocy terms – make this not only a poor film, but an annoying one. An utter waste of time.
Right at the other end of the scale is Accidental Love, an odd, frequently silly and ultimately delightfully clever comedy that satirises the attitudes of those opposed to Barack Obama's affordable health care plan. It doesn't even try to go the route of serious commentary, rather leaping gleefully into profoundly daft parody that is wholly embraced by a big-name cast – Jessica Biel, Jake Gylenhaal. Catherine Keener, James Marsden and Tracy Morgan all shine. The romance aspect sees unlikely small-town heroine Alice (Biel) abandon the supposedly perfect life she'd enjoy with saucer-deep local stud Scott (Marsden) after she gets injured and is refused treatment based on her financial situation, leading her beau to abandon her. She seeks solace in Washington wannabe Howard Birdwell (Gyllenhaal), hoping that his connections will help her to get the treatment she needs. That sounds fairly serious, even vaguely Erin Brokovich-ish, but director Stephen Greene ensures that the plot takes such preposterous turns, so often and so hilariously, that the film's serious message hits hard because it somehow makes it through such a ludicrous filter en route to the viewer. It seems improbable that such an achievement would be the work of an unknown director, and it is, for Greene is actually David O Russell, the craftsman behind such award-winning projects as Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle. There was some Hollywood dodginess behind the scenes that made him feel it necessary to sign on under a pseudonym, but hopefully he'll one day claim this riotous romp for what it is – a stand-out (if difficult to market) comedy that constantly surprises.
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When the steampunk computers and keyboards first came out I thought they were pretty neat. But lately I just find them a bit tedious.
Beautiful craftsmanship. The fellow has more useful skills than just sitting in front of a computer screen playing video games.
Whether or not you like the Steampunk stuff, this is as much a demonstration of the creators skill.
I can make things okay, but would typically need to buy parts to add or vary. This guy creates parts from scratch.
Good way to ear lot of money !!!
@Aynn-Tu-Kynaa your wrong ! Some people earn there life by doing this !!
They've sold it for a lot of money!
did anyone else just scroll down to the last picture to see the end product?
effort just for a keyboard??
Guess only the person who made it could answer that.
Very well done! Not something I would use,but still awesome!
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Making sure that local voices are listened to when it comes to developing innovative solutions for ecosystem services is one of the major components of the SINCERE project. Each of the project's Innovation Action case studies has identified key local and regional stakeholders with whom to consult on the various innovative mechanisms, which could potentially be implemented in the project's eleven case studies.
These stakeholders, who include forest or land owners and managers, forest users, local authorities, entrepreneurs and forest-owner associations have been invited to form local Multi-Actor Groups (MAG) which will meet four times over the course of the project, at decisive moments in the development of the case study. The MAGs are involved in the design, implementation and evaluation of the Innovation Action through facilitated meetings in their local region, with MAG representatives subsequently invited to a project-wide meeting. This Co-Design Event hosts exchange and learning between the eleven Innovation Action Cases, project partners and European stakeholders from relevant fields, including business, policy, international associations and NGOs.
The first MAG meetings took place in the autumn of 2018, to discuss initial ideas for potential innovative mechanisms for the Innovation Action cases. A brainstorming exercise led to a short-listing of between four and ten mechanisms, which were then evaluated via a self-screening questionnaire.
Meeting outcomes show how the case studies are at very different stages of development. Common to all, however, is a high level of local and regional interest in developing innovative solutions to support the benefits the forest brings to its local communities. Furthermore, stakeholders consider it important to work together to develop ecosystem services in their region, for some, an opportunity that had not presented itself before. More details on each of the MAG meetings can be found in the news section of the SINCERE website.
Findings from the first MAG meetings and subsequent developments will be shared in a Co-Design Event, to be held on 28 – 29 January in Leuven, Belgium. A second round of MAG meetings will then take place in the regions in early 2019.


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In a half-day, you can start to dig in to Marina life. Enjoy the sunshine and sparkling harbor views on one or more of these excursions. Of course, a Marina del Rey itinerary includes things to do on- and off-the-water!
Hornblower Cruises & Events offers the only public dining cruises in the Marina. Choose from weekend brunch and dinner cruises year-round. From summer through early fall, Hornblower adds to the lineup with sunset cocktail cruises on Wednesdays. Themed cruises are also offered seasonally. Time: About 3 hours.
Get a bird's-eye view of the entire Los Angeles coastline on an excursion with Marina del Rey Parasailing (March-October). Choose from 500 or 800 feet. Time: About 2 hours.
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Hidradenoma usually presents as a solitary, slow-growing, and solid or cystic nodular lesion, which arises in various anatomical sites. Its diagnosis is occasionally difficult because the tumor shares histological features with other cutaneous appendage tumors.
Recently, CRTC1-MAML2 fusion gene was reported in hidradenomas, with the fusion transcript being demonstrated in approximately 50% of cases.
However, limited information is available regarding its clinical significance.
Researchers have investigated the relationship between the fusion gene and clinicohistopathological features.
39 cases histologically diagnosed as hidradenoma were reviewed.
Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction ( RT-PCR ) was performed for all 39 cases, and fluorescence in situ hybridization was also performed for the RT-PCR-negative cases.
The 39 tumors included 36 clear cell hidradenomas and 3 poroid hidradenomas.
The details of the cellular components were as follows: clear cell-dominant type, 9 cases; polygonal cell-dominant type, 21 cases; and equally mixed type, 9 cases.
There were no tumors with apparent mucinous cells. There were 8 tumors with prominent cystic change, 2 of which presented apocrine-like decapitated secretion.
CRTC1-MAML2 fusion was detected in 10 of the 39 tumors ( 26% ) and CRTC3-MAML2 fusion in 2 of the 39 ( 5% ) by RT-PCR.
MAML2 gene rearrangement was detected in 11 of 27 fusion gene-negative cases by fluorescence in situ hybridization.
Moreover, neither the fusion genes nor gene rearrangement was detected in prominent cystic tumors and poroid hidradenomas.
In conclusion, CRTC1/3-MAML2 fusion gene analysis can be a useful method for diagnosing hidradenoma.


Congratulations to Li Xuerui for winning the 2018 Lingshui China Masters.
Lingshui: The London Olympic women's singles champion Li Xuerui of China had made an astonishing comeback in the Lingshui China Masters final after she tore her anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and injured her lateral meniscus in the Rio Olympic women's singles semi-finals in 2016.
Li turned to tears after she fought back from a set down to beat Kim Ga Eun of Korea 16-21, 21-16, 21-18 in 56 minutes in the women's singles on Sunday.
"I don't know what else to say. I didn't think so much. This was my first tournament after my injury, I was hoping to play well at this tournament, and I just took it one game at a time. Frankly, it's quite challenging," said Li.
"After I lost my first set, I told myself I have to belief in myself, and I shouldn't give up," added Li.
China would have achieved a clean sweep at the tournament if it wasn't for Lu Guangzu's defeat to Lin Yu Hsien of Taiwan in the men's singles final. Lin was made to work before winning the men's singles title 12-21, 21-12, 21-14.
Meanwhile, at the 2018 Victor Dutch International, Malaysia's Cheam June Wei finally earned his first victory at the senior level. The 21-year-old Cheam beat Poland's Adrian Dziolko 13-21, 21-13, 21-10 to clinch the men's singles title in Wateringen.
Cheam June Wei wins the 2018 Victor Dutch International.
"I'm so excited that I finally won the men's singles title at senior level," said Cheam.
In women's singles, Malaysia's M. Thinaah put up good fight against reigning European junior champion Julie Dawall Jakobsen of Denmark in the women's singles final before going down 21-17, 15-21, 11-21.


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The shelves at Zurich's Kon-Tiki are lined with hard liquor and bud. (Image courtesy of Derrick Bergman)
Legal Cannabis In Switzerland: Between Hype And Hope
By Derrick Bergman | Published: September 13, 2018
Forget chocolate, cheese and Rolexes — there's a new industry on the rise in the Alps.
Switzerland is home to one of Europe's oldest cannabis fairs. CannaTrade launched in 2001 and this year's event, held last April, was a memorable one. The three-day festivities took place in Zurich, the nation's biggest city that's not only known for its fine foods and fancy timepieces, but also for its independence and neutral position when it comes to international politics. Switzerland is not a member of the European Union and managed to stay neutral in both world wars of the last century. Indeed, the last time the Swiss experienced war in their country was the Sonderbund War of 1847.
The Swiss also tend to take an independent position when it comes to the war on drugs. It introduced a new drug policy in the early '90s, enabling Zurich to become among the first cities in the world (the first facility was established in the Swiss city Bern in 1986) where hard drug users could take their drugs in a safe consumption room, with clean facilities and medical staff on hand. This pragmatic harm reduction measure was unheard of at the time.
So, how do the Swiss handle cannabis?
Since 2012, personal use and minor possession — up to 10 grams — of cannabis with more than one percent THC has been decriminalized to a fine of 100 Swiss francs (equivalent to about USD$103). Cannabis with less than one percent THC has been legal since 2011. The one percent limit is the highest in Europe; most countries draw the line at 0.2 percent THC. It took the Swiss cannabis producers a while to come up with strains that have more CBD (cannabidiol) and never contain more than one percent THC. But they did it, and these strains started appearing on the market in 2016.
A billboard advertises Koch & Gsell hemp cigarettes containing less than one percent THC. (Image courtesy of Derrick Bergman)
Koch & Gsell, founded in 2015, made global headlines when it introduced "the first tobacco hemp cigarette in the world" under the brand name Heimat (homeland) in 2017. The cigarettes, packaged per 20, contain tobacco grown in Switzerland and a total of four grams of CBD hemp, with less than one percent THC. They are sold for 19,90 Swiss Francs (USD$20.50) per package at tobacco shops and two major supermarket chains, Lidl and Coop.
Legal so-called CBD weed is also on sale in the form of dried buds at most tobacco shops in Switzerland. Some big-name cannabis brands in the Swiss market include Double Green, BioCan, Swiss Flavor, Weedz AG, KannaSwiss and Kahna Queen. Each of these companies grow their own strains, such as Fedora by BioCan, or produce CBD varieties from major seed companies like Dinafem Seeds.
According to Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, there were 410 registered companies manufacturing or trading CBD in Switzerland as of December 2017. A lot of these were present at the CannaTrade fair in April. Perhaps the most striking feature of the fair? The vast number of live cannabis plants on display, in all shapes and sizes.
Clones were also being openly sold at the fair, and in a number of booths, huge jars full of beautiful buds were on display. The buds looked like weed, smelled like weed and even tasted like weed — but they didn't get you high. It made the whole experience quite surreal. Or rather, quite Dadaist. Zurich is the city where the Dada art movement was born around a century ago. You can still visit the Cabaret Voltaire on Spiegelgasse. Seeing so many CannaTrade visitors puff on big joints, without knowing if they were just smoking the legal CBD weed or maybe something else, felt like a Dada performance piece.
Visiting one of the first legal weed coffee shops in Zurich, Kon-Tiki on Niederdorfstrasse, gives a similarly absurd feeling. Located in the heart of the beautiful Old Town, it has been a bar for more than 60 years. But now, you can buy four different strains of cannabis at the counter — Lion Haze, Orange Bud, Purple Bud and Kon-Tiki Kush — and smoke your purchase in the large upstairs lounge. In almost every respect, this room at Kon-Tiki was like a Dutch cannabis coffee shop, with people talking, smoking and drinking together. However, the one thing you wouldn't find in a Dutch coffee shop was the sign on the wall proclaiming, "Consume only laps CBD products here. No high THC products."
Switzerland's legal cannabis is distributed through tobacco shops, supermarkets and coffee shops. (Image courtesy of Derrick Bergman)
On the last day of the CannaTrade fair, the winners of the Canna Swiss Cup were announced and awarded beautiful trophies. In the preceding months, jury boxes with 35 samples of Swiss CBD strains had been on sale at tobacco shops and Coop supermarkets all over the country — another first in the modern cannabis era, as far as I know. The boxes looked sophisticated and retailed for 215 Swiss francs, or about USD$220. BioCan won first place in the Outdoor and Greenhouse categories with its Fedtonic strain, plus second prize in the Indoor category. The Indoor winner, PiHaze from Weedz AG, contains 22.4 percent CBD and 0.9 percent THC.
So, Switzerland has plenty of legal producers of cannabis, distribution through tobacco shops and supermarkets, a fully legal cannabis cup, and a handful of coffee shops. Police don't seem to be too concerned about cannabis. If they suspect someone is smoking weed that contains more than one percent THC, they can demand a lab test to determine the THC level. If it's over the limit, the unlucky toker has to pay the lab test and a fine for illegal possession.
Meanwhile, a growing number of Swiss politicians realize that the country could make millions if they export locally produced medicinal cannabis. Up until now, the federal health authorities have refused to allow such a practice. However, in March, a group of 50 politicians led by Christa Markwalder of the centrist Free Democratic Party called upon the government to either allow export or change the law, so that Swiss farmers can profit from the fast-growing global market for legal medical marijuana products.
One question, however, remains: Will Switzerland be the first country in Europe to completely legalize?
Since the summer of 2016, when legal cannabis first began appearing in Swiss stores, a wealth of experience has been accumulated — not just when it comes to growing cannabis, but also when it comes to testing, packaging, retailing and marketing the plant. Switching to normal cannabis without a maximum THC percentage would be a piece of cake for the companies involved. Add to this Switzerland's traditional independent position, pioneering harm reduction policies, and the fact that the country is a champion of binding referendums — more than 400 in 50 years — and you can see why some people have high hopes for the future of legal weed in the picturesque nation.
On the other hand, if the Swiss stick to the one-percent THC limit, then the whole CBD weed business will likely turn out to be nothing more than a flash in the pan. Most of the estimated 200,000 to 500,000 cannabis consumers in Switzerland want to get high. It's great to have legal CBD cannabis, but it's nonsense to perpetuate the ban on other forms of psychoactive cannabis.
CannaTrade is one of Europe's oldest cannabis fairs and is host to the winners of the Canna Swiss Cup. (Image courtesy of Derrick Bergman)
Perhaps a recent sign that things are moving in the right direction is a press release issued by the Federal Office of Public Health on July 4. The office announced it wants to make it easier for Swiss citizens to access medical cannabis. In 2017, some 3,000 patients were treated with medicinal marijuana in Switzerland (such qualifying conditions include epilepsy, cancer, chronic pain, spasticity and nausea), but permission is granted on a case-by-case basis.
The Federal Office of Public Health has requested the Federal Department of Home Affairs work out a new law to legalize medical marijuana by the summer of 2019. And the press release contains more good news: The government will allow scientific pilot studies on alternative regulatory models for recreational use of cannabis. For decades, local authorities have been asking the federal government for permission to start these kinds of experiments, but were always turned down. The government's cannabis plans are up for consultation from interested parties until October 25.
Despite the slow-moving pace, one thing is certain: Cannabis has entered the mainstream in Switzerland — and the debate about legalization and medical use isn't going away anytime soon.
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Blake Tower Studios, Barbican Estate
ORIGINAL BARBICAN ESTATE
Explanation of flat types for Original Barbican
1A 1B 1C 2A 2B 2C 3A 3B 3C 4A 4B 4C 5A 6B 7C 8A 8B 8C 9A 9B 9C 10 12 13 14 16 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 49 50 51 52 53 54 56 57 58 60 61 63/64 67/68 70 71 72 73 74 76 78 79 80 81 84 85 86 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 118 119 120 121 F1A F1D F1E F2A F2B F2C F3C M2A M2B M2C M3A M3B M3C M3D M3E M4A P1D P2A P2B
Studios | 1 bed | 2 beds | 3+ beds | Towers | Maisonettes | Penthouses | Garden
Explanation of flat types for Frobisher Crescent
7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 7.11 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10 8.11 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 9.10
Studios | 1 bed | 2 beds | 3+ beds | Maisonettes | Penthouses
Explanation of flat types for Blake Tower
Flat Types 42 45 46 47 48 49 50 52 54 60 61 65 66 67 70 71 72 76 77 78 82 84 88 93 100 102 108 137 Pen1 Pen 2
Flats LG21 LG22 LG11 LG12 LG13 1 2 3 11 12 13 14 21 22 23 24 25 31 32 33 34 35 41 42 43 44 45 51 52 53 54 55 61 62 63 64 65 71 72 73 74 75 81 82 83 84 91 92 93 94 101 102 103 104 111 112 113 114 121 122 123 124 131 132 133 134 141 142 143 151 152 153 161 162
Floors LG2 LG1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16-17
Studios | One-bed flats | Two-bed flats | Three-bed flats | Bathrooms | Kitchens | Winter Gardens | Balconies
The studio flats in Blake Tower are all in the middle of the east-facing halves of floors 2 to 7.
The flats on the floors 3 to 7 identical and the flat on floor 2 is virtually the same, except that a 'chunk' has been taken out of the living room and a smaller bit out of the bedroom. (You need to compare the plans to see what I mean.)
If you want to be tiresomely pedantic about it (like me) you'll say they're not really studios at all. Studios don't have separate bedrooms. These flats do. There is a clear distinction between the living space and the bedroom, with a sliding door between them.
A more important difference is that the studios are usually smaller than the one-bedroom flats. The studios are 44.6 m² (41.8 m² on floor 2). The one-bedroom flats are in the region of 50 m² upwards. But even that is not a clear-cut distinction. The officially one-bed Apartments 21 and 23 on floor 2 are only 46.5 m² and 46.1 m² respectively.
The studio flats don't have a huge amount of window space. The living/dining and kitchen areas share east-facing windows which are opposite the entrance of the flat. The bedroom also has a window facing east near the head of the bed. (On floor 2, the windows are set further back into the flat.)
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The Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve Replacement (TAVR), which will be sold under the brand name "Myval", is a minimally invasive procedure in which the doctor places an artificial valve into the patient's diseased valve via a catheter inserted through the femoral artery (the large artery in the groin).
It is an alternative way to replace diseased valves without undergoing a traditional open heart procedure. © Shutterstock.
The Transcatheter Aortic Heart Valve Replacement (TAVR), which will be sold under the brand name "Myval", is a minimally invasive procedure in which the doctor places an artificial valve into the patient's diseased valve via a catheter inserted through the femoral artery (the large artery in the groin).
It is an alternative way to replace diseased valves without undergoing a traditional open heart procedure, which some patients may not receive well.
"The novel Myval technology is associated with zero new pacemaker implantation rates post procedure (which is an important benefit for the patient already treated for valve replacement). The pacemaker is an additional device that may be placed post TAVR procedure," Bhatt told IANS.
"Keeping healthcare for all in mind, the price of the technology will be well within the range," he added.
The approval is based on successful results from a clinical trial done in India, involving 14 hospitals — Fortis and Medanta-The Medicity and Eternal Hospital, Jaipur, to name a few, Bhatt said.
"The development of this valve, which is implanted non-surgically through a catheter is a great achievement for the 'Made in India' initiative that such an important R&D has happened from India in a field which till now has been dominated by only American devices," Principal Investigator Ashok Seth, Chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, told IANS.
"The first patient to receive Myval has completed 1.5 years and is living a symptom-free productive life. The valve was effective in relieving the patient's symptoms and reducing the death and hospitalisation from the aortic stenosis," according to Ravinder Singh Rao, Interventional Cardiologist at Eternal.
"Myval TAVR technology will be a boon for millions of patients suffering from aortic stenosis," Rao said.


Blockprinting is one of the oldest forms of printmaking and can be used in fine art prints as well as to make stamps for cards, home décor, and many other uses. Students in this class will learn basic blockprinting carving skills using lino cutting tools and speedy carve rubber blockprinting material with stamp pads.
I will share how I use blockprinting in my work with the group. Students can come with a design in mind or gain inspiration from resource materials I will bring. Come and enjoy some creative time with us!
All material provided. $10 additional materials fee to instructor. Register at Circle of Stitches site.


Discussion in 'General' started by Uror, Feb 4, 2019.
Just made one and levelling as Elemental, great fun! Any tips?
I'm not sure if this counts as a tip, but elemental can feel a bit rough sometimes levelling/starting out at max level, definitely push through it because it feels much better once you get past that than it used to imo.
I am level 32 doing 5 mans via the finder and quests with a bunch of heirlooms on so going ok. The play style reminds me of Mage so far but i barely have any spells at this stage.
The play style reminds me of Mage so far but i barely have any spells at this stage.
So just like all the mage specs at max level then! The fire one just needs phoenix flames replaced with scorch to be BfA correct.
I have no idea of this specc you speak of.
You have to press 3 buttons maybe 4 and i hardly ever die i think its the future!


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Gratz on the review. Ones written like that are always nice to get!